Lammet kiehtovat minua. Muistan kun nuorempana istuin autossa matkalla jonnekin, ja ohikiitävän hetken ajan näin tien vieressä osmankäämien ympäröimän, mustan, lumpeita tursuilevan metsälammen. Se näky paloi jostain syystä verkkokalvoilleni, ja teki minuun suuren vaikutuksen. Siitä lähtien se lampi on esiintynyt unissani, piirroksissani ja tarinoissani hyvin usein.
Haluaisin joskus valokuvata jonkun kanssa oikein kunnon Rusalka-kuvia. Vaalea, kalpea alaston neito mustassa lammessa rämeen keskellä. Olen visioinut tätä pitkään. Välillä se visio suorastaan piinaa mua, koska en tiedä kuka suostuisi sellaiseen hulluuteen.
Translation:
"In Slavic mythology, a rusalka (plural: rusalki or rusalky) is a female ghost, water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon that dwelt in a waterway.
According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerize them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death.
People who die violently and before their time, such as young women who commit suicide because they have been jilted by their lovers, or unmarried women who are pregnant, must live out their designated time on earth as a spirit.
The ghostly version is the soul of a young woman who had died in or near a river or a lake and came back to haunt that waterway. This undead rusalka is not invariably malevolent, and will be allowed to die in peace if her death is avenged."
Little dark ponds and black forest lakes fascinate me. Once, many years ago, I saw a glimpse of one when travelling somewhere by car, and the place has since been in my dreams, drawings and stories a lot.